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Vim is a free and open-source modal text editor available for most major platforms. It allows high efficiency in many text editing tasks but has a steep learning curve. To learn the basics, run ":help vimtutor".

Sometimes I want to copy some content on remote host in vim, which will last for more than 1 page. But when clicked by left-click of mouse, and scrolling down, I find I was stuck at the first page.
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I can use autocmd to make my cmd to run if file of specific file type loaded. For example for python:
autocmd FileType python make me happy with python
But is there any way to make my cmd to run if ...

In my daily work in Vim's insert mode I use my native Croatian keyboard layout (HR) to which I'm accustomed at. In normal mode it is more practical for me to be in English keyboard layout (EN) since ...

I'm using mkview to save my folding settings, cursor position, etc.. in what is called a view (actually I'm using a plugin that does it automatically, restore_view).
The problem comes when I copy a ...

I have the following set of lines, where the 1st column is a Scenario name and it's followed by a list of parameters.
I want to use the 1st column value as a value to the parameter scen=, which may ...

I am having trouble with the following script written in Vim (by Yichao Zhou (); source: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4021). The question breaks down to details related with mkview ...

While using Intellij IDEA 14.0.3, suddenly keybord was blocked, I can't write antyhing in files, if I click Enter it only came to next row of code ect. I can not found solution in Google and SA which ...

I back up my _vimrc file to google drive so I can grab it to use on a new computer when I'm doing a new gvim installation. I use pathogen for all my vim plugins, and was zipping the /vimfiles/bundle ...

I am using vim-airline plugin which works pretty good however, the only way to switch between tabs is to user :bp or :bn which is shortcuts for :bprevious or :bnext. The problem with this is that if I ...

I'm trying to write a little function that will help when I'm debugging code with Stata. All I want is for vim to count up the number of times a line begins with di "here and then insert di "here XX" ...

I'm a long time user of GUI IDEs like PhpStorm but I see the value in learning a CLI editor like Vim for when tapping into remote servers. I'm learning commands on a need-to-know basis, but I'd like ...

Vim-newbie here...
I've been learning vim at work using a Mac.
I added my .vimrc to my github repo and expected Vundle to
download everything and have vim working the same on my home Mint 13 laptop.
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My internet connection often fails, causing a Putty disconnect and Vim creating swap files. When I come back and recover, I never get the "(D)elete" option when reopening the file, even if I close the ...